Includes index

Saudi Arabia : Abdel Wahhab's sons -- Saudi Arabia : Chuck E. Cheese and Richard the Lion Heart -- Tunisia : teaching Freud to the mullahs -- Yemen : you're here to pinpoint air strikes against our mosque -- Kuwait : to Tora Bora and back -- Iraq : tell Mr. Bush that I have dirty clothes -- Iraq : one Saddam for every neighborhood -- Iraq : we don't count their bodies -- Iraq : even if you turn this country into heaven -- Afghanistan : the brandy of Kabul -- Afghanistan : why are you afraid of the soldiers? -- Lebanon : even the goats come from Hezbollah -- Mali : a ballot box in Timbuktu -- Bosnia : all these books, I got them from the Arabs -- Glossary of religious and political terms

Drawing on reporting from more than a dozen Islamic countries, this book offers a portrait of the Muslim world after September 11. Journalist Trofimov examines the unprecedented American intrusion in the Muslim heartland and the ripples it has caused far beyond the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. What emerges is a penetrating portrait of people, faith, and countries better known in caricature than reported detail. The ordinary Muslims, influential clerics, warlords, jihadis, intellectuals and heads of state we meet are engaged in conversations that reveal the Muslim world to us from a new, unexpected perspective.--From publisher description

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